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![]() Major General Gregory A. Feest Chief of Safety of the United States Air Force | |
Birth name | Gregory A. Feest |
Born | 1956 (age 67–68) Racine, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Allegiance | United States of America |
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Years of service | 1978–2012 |
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Gregory A. Feest (born 1956) is a retired United States Air Force (USAF) major general who last served as the Chief of Safety of the United States Air Force, Headquarters USAF, Washington, D.C., and commander of the Air Force Safety Center, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.
Feest was born in 1956 in Racine, Wisconsin. He attended St. Catherine's High School graduating in 1974. [1] He received his USAF commission through the ROTC program at the University of Wisconsin in 1978. [2]
Feest has held a variety of flying assignments, including command of the operations and maintenance of one of only two operational F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter squadrons. He has also commanded the 479th Flying Training Group, Moody Air Force Base, Georgia; the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing, Southwest Asia; and 19th Air Force, Randolph AFB, Texas. His staff assignments include USAF liaison officer to the U.S. Senate, senior military assistant to the director of operational test and evaluation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and deputy director of requirements at Headquarters Air Combat Command, Langley AFB, Virginia. The general also served as Air Education and Training Command's director of logistics, installations and mission support, as well as deputy director for force application in the Directorate of Force Structure, Resources and Assessment on the Joint Staff. He retired on 1 November 2012. [2] He since has worked at L3 Technologies as vice president of USAF Programs and at Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (Skunk Works) as deputy director of operations, business, and strategy development and is the executive director for the National Commission on Military Aviation Safety. [3]
He is also recognized for having dropped the first bomb of Operation Desert Storm, flying the F-117A.
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Insignia | Rank | Date |
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Major general | December 3, 2008 |
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Brigadier general | October 1, 2005 |
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Colonel | September 1, 1998 |
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Lieutenant colonel | March 1, 1994 |
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Major | July 1, 1989 |
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Captain | October 13, 1982 |
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First lieutenant | October 13, 1980 |
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Second lieutenant | October 13, 1978 |
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